Farming
Rain doesn't put off A&P Show punters
Organisers are promising a return to full strength after last year's show was scaled back. Audio
A&P show returns full strength after last year's cut backs
A wet and windy day in the Garden City didn't put off crowds of punters turning out to the first day of Canterbury's agricultural and pastoral show. An annual fixture in Christchurch - and back with a… Audio
Oyster farmers say it will take years to recover from sewage overflow
They're purveyors of some of the world's most sought-after culinary delicacies, but Mahurangi's oyster farmers have been reduced to eating beans on toast most days, their hair going grey, their nerves… Audio
$160 million revamp of the country's only vet school completed
The final stage of a $160 million dollar revamp to New Zealand's only vet training school is complete. At Massey University's Palmerston North campus today new building Nga Huia officially opened its… Audio
Canterbury A&P show returns with royal status
The show's organisers are promising a strong return after last year's downscaled format.
Midday Rural News for 10 November 2025
Yellow legged hornet has beekeepers on high alert. Audio
Saving seeds, saving stories
There's a story to many of the heritage seedlings which Jemma Ostenfeld grows on a patch of borrowed land in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
A Southlander inside the mega dairies of China and Russia
Berwick Settle has worked on some of the biggest dairy farms in the world, where cows never go outside the barn and must take regular showers to stay cool and keep the milk flowing.
Saving seeds, saving stories
Jemma Ostenfeld collects and germinates seeds on a patch of borrowed land in the eastern Bay of Plenty. She is helping to preserve the genetic memory of plants - each seed a story of survival… Audio
From the Archives - Sheep on the board
In this story for the long-running programme Spectrum, first broadcast in 1972, Jack Perkins joins a Wairarapa shearing gang, on a farm near Masterton. It starts at the beginning of a day's shearing… Audio
A wrap from RNZ's rural news desk
A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector. Audio
A kiwi's life in the world's largest dairy farms
Twenty years ago Berwick Settle was a Southland sharemilker. Since then he's worked in some of the biggest dairy farms in the world, helping set up farms in China and Russia where cows live year round… Audio
Midday Rural News for 7 November 2025
An update on the latest news from RNZ's rural team. Audio
Farmer urges government to act as consent costs spiral
It has been seven weeks since David Clark went public with his frustration of the resource consent process and its "outrageous costs".
